How to REALLY get a GREAT JOB « How to REALLY get a GREAT JOBbreak out of the corporate prison2015-07-30T11:08:15Zhttp://blog.howtoreallygetagreatjob.com/feed/atom/WordPressbryandiltshttp://www.dilts.ushttp://blog.howtoreallygetagreatjob.com/?p=28842015-07-30T11:08:15Z2015-07-30T11:08:15ZSome mornings it just doesn’t seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. (Phillips)

Coyotes stuck in a trap have been known to gnaw their foot off to escape. A lot of these three footed coyotes survive for years and do very well. Okay, they do well compared to coyotes that were killed by [...]]]>

0bryandiltshttp://www.dilts.ushttp://blog.howtoreallygetagreatjob.com/?p=28812015-07-28T21:07:00Z2015-07-28T21:07:00ZNothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straightforward and simple integrity in another. (Colton)

Non-competes

For a year Jim did a two hour commute-one way, every day. What a horrible thought. He did it to get out of a non-compete agreement. Do you think he will ever sign another [...]]]>

Your resume has to be good enough in a blind test to get past the trash can.

Getting past the trash can

When is your resume being thrown away? In my last post I gave the 4 major trashing points in your resume’s life.

You have two ways to break [...]]]>

0bryandiltshttp://www.dilts.ushttp://blog.howtoreallygetagreatjob.com/?p=28672015-04-14T19:16:34Z2015-04-14T18:52:16ZYou have to know when your resume is being thrown away to fix its problems. There is a timing pattern you must understand. You have to break through your resume’s stumbling block in the following pattern to get hired: Your resume arrives along with 100 others. The secretary trashes 80 after a 10 second review [...]]]>0bryandiltshttp://www.dilts.ushttp://blog.howtoreallygetagreatjob.com/?p=28612015-04-09T10:17:01Z2015-04-09T09:33:32ZIf you’re afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody’s perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don’t work as well as you think they do. (Morgenstern)

Hiding real problems

The trick to hiding things on your resume is the same one that stars use to hide flaws. For instance, what [...]]]>

0bryandiltshttp://www.dilts.ushttp://blog.howtoreallygetagreatjob.com/?p=28572015-04-09T09:18:17Z2015-04-07T09:27:02ZOur greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. (Hoffer)

Hiding what is NOT on your resume may be the hardest part of writing one. Someone is going to get that job. Most successful candidates [...]]]>

0bryandiltshttp://www.dilts.ushttp://blog.howtoreallygetagreatjob.com/?p=28542015-04-02T09:33:59Z2015-04-02T15:19:22ZHide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade? (Franklin)

Walking on the flat, open plains, an Apache claims he can disappear from sight. There is no place to hide, so the Army officer backs off to a safe distance and turns his back for a minute. Sure enough [...]]]>

0bryandiltshttp://www.dilts.ushttp://blog.howtoreallygetagreatjob.com/?p=28502015-04-01T09:24:55Z2015-04-01T09:24:55ZEvery day, businesses in every industry all around the world fail to make sales to qualified, hungry clients who desperately need what they are selling. And the real problem isn’t what they think it is. They aren’t paying attention to the most critical factor in sales — the critical ingredient that determines what their customers [...]]]>0bryandiltshttp://www.dilts.ushttp://blog.howtoreallygetagreatjob.com/?p=28472015-03-24T17:40:24Z2015-03-24T17:40:24ZLiving in a ghetto, slum or trailer park does not make you trash. Mother Theresa lived in a slum. Her resume was good enough to get a Nobel Peace Prize.

I get some REALLY bad resumes. They say:

I can’t do this job. I have no skills or training. The reason I have the nerve [...]]]>

0bryandiltshttp://www.dilts.ushttp://blog.howtoreallygetagreatjob.com/?p=28432015-03-18T09:32:47Z2015-03-18T09:32:47ZJob death is NOT a bad thing. It is a part of your progress. Once you are dead, just get on with your life.

Rigor Mortis – signs of job death – job CPR fixes

When your job is dead you have a decision to make: keep it or leave? If you keep it, perform [...]]]>